/jp/ - Otaku Culture

This one was as good as the manga and the anime, it was awesome.
Also, the team who translated it in french used a good style and vocabulary.
My favourite.

This one was as good as the manga and the anime, it was awesome.
Also, the time who translated it in french used a good style and vocabulary.
My favourite.

Is it a stereotype that hikikomori/NEETs are drug addicts?

Satou certainly has a drug problem in the novel.

Was the "Jewish conspiracy" stuff in the original Japanese version, or was it localized to Jews for the Tokyopop release?
I feel like it would originally be Koreans, or something.

In this world, conspiracies exist.
However, there is a more than a ninety-nine percent chance that the plausible-sounding conspiracies that you hear about from others are simple delusions or even intentional lies. When you visit a bookstore, the books with titles like "The Great Jewish Conspiracy to Ruin the Japanese Economy!" or "The Super Conspiracy of the CIA That Hides Their Secret Pact with Aliens!" are all just trivial delusions.
Even so. . . people love conspiracies.
Conspiracies. We are hopelessly fascinated by the sound of that word and its bittersweet echo.
Consider, for example, the process by which "The Jewish Conspiracy" theory comes to be: The author has multiple, terrible complexes and feelings, such as, "Why am I poor?"; "Why is my life not more comfortable?"; "Why can I not find a girlfriend?" His mind and body constantly are pressured, from both within and without.
Those pent-up grudges become endless feelings of hatred toward society. They become rage.
However, the largest source of rage is his own personal cowardice.

In this world, conspiracies exist.
However, there is a more than a ninety-nine percent chance that the plausible-sounding conspiracies that you hear about from others are simple delusions or even intentional lies. When you visit a bookstore, the books with titles like "The Great Jewish Conspiracy to Ruin the Japanese Economy!" or "The Super Conspiracy of the CIA That Hides Their Secret Pact with Aliens!" are all just trivial delusions.
Even so. . . people love conspiracies.
Conspiracies. We are hopelessly fascinated by the sound of that word and its bittersweet echo.
Consider, for example, the process by which "The Jewish Conspiracy" theory comes to be: The author has multiple, terrible complexes and feelings, such as, "Why am I poor?"; "Why is my life not more comfortable?"; "Why can I not find a girlfriend?" His mind and body constantly are pressured, from both within and without.
Those pent-up grudges become endless feelings of hatred toward society. They become rage.
However, the largest source of rage is his own personal cowardice.

What are some good Japanese literature?

What are you reading? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?

>>8620652
No need to apologize, I wasn't clear.
Forgot about Welcome to the NHK for some reason, and that's a good one. Maybe because it was a one-shot instead of a series, sticks less in the mind.

Such a nice cover by ABe...

Fuck this argument about semantics.
I just finished reading this and I want to know whether you guys thought the ending was happy, sad, or bittersweet.

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